Mail Order Albums

[memoman]

Re: Mail Order Albums

Time life were very frequently advertised,However they made very dull adverts,For basically the sort of cds woolies sold for £1-99 (type). sheer cr@p!

[jason h]

Re: Mail Order Albums

Remember, this offer amazing is not available in the shops... These were usually gluttonous compilations of back-catalogue hits by bands who wanted to sell off old stock. I think K-Tel were King when it came to this kind of stuff.

[Richard1978]

Re: Mail Order Albums

I once asked my Dad if has was interested in buying one, but he said that he already had many of the tracks on it.

[drexl_spivey]

Re: Mail Order Albums

Timelife was another, basically re-hashing the same predictable choices

[Richard1978]

I remember in the 1980s & 1990s there were a lot of compilations that were only sold by mail order or over the phone, normally combined with a TV advert, often stating Not Available In Any Shop! In the late 1980s there was the option of getting a copy on X records, Y tapes or Z CD's.

Tellydisc was one company which I remember selling a lot of records this way, I have a The Shadows two disc set that was originally my Grans.

I think a few other companies sold albums (often largish compilations) this way.